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Comments for "SOPA Protest Aftermath"enRe: SOPA Protest Aftermathhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/19/sopa-protest-aftermath#comment-276928
<p>You&#39;re forgetting things like Spore&#39;s horrendous DRM, which was one of those that started the battle...</p>
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:38:03 +0000DorthLouscomment 276928 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: SOPA Protest Aftermathhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/19/sopa-protest-aftermath#comment-276921
<p>You sure that was EA? The last big controversy I recall over a specific type of DRM was with Ubisoft&#39;s always-on stuff. The Origin issue had more to do with allegations of being spyware than any complaints regarding DRM capabilities.</p>
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:10:54 +0000Technogeekcomment 276921 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: SOPA Protest Aftermathhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/19/sopa-protest-aftermath#comment-276904
<p>Kinda like when the CEO of EA said that &quot;Only Pirates complain about the DRM in our games.&quot;</p>
<p>&nbsp;- W</p>
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:37:26 +0000Cecil475comment 276904 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: SOPA Protest Aftermathhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/19/sopa-protest-aftermath#comment-276903
<p>Disney is in favor of SOPA so don&#39;t be amazed when they spin the&nbsp;crap out of it.</p>
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:01:28 +0000Loucomment 276903 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: SOPA Protest Aftermathhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/19/sopa-protest-aftermath#comment-276897
<p>Sad part is that slip up is even closer to the truth.</p>
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:21:30 +0000hellfire7885comment 276897 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: SOPA Protest Aftermathhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/19/sopa-protest-aftermath#comment-276896
<p>I keep seeing that argument pop up.</p>
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<p>&quot;Only pirates don&#39;t want this to pass&quot;</p>
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:20:50 +0000hellfire7885comment 276896 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: SOPA Protest Aftermathhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/19/sopa-protest-aftermath#comment-276895
<p>I rather liked Fark&#39;s fake-support protest. Night before the blackouts started, Drew Curtis announced his 100% support of SOPA, and purged all the anti-SOPA links in the queue. Shortly after getting the shitstorm good and rolling, the front page was replaced with something along the lines of, &quot;We&#39;ve been doing this for 12 years, and honestly, it&#39;s hard to keep up. We&#39;ve been looking for a reason to quit, and getting shut down by the government is as good as any.&quot;</p>
<p>It was fun switching around the different news networks in prime time, too. All of the normally well spoken talking heads from every wing on the scale were stumbling over words trying to cover the day&#39;s biggest news without pissing off their employers, who all supported the bill.</p>
<p>I&#39;m absolutely shocked that a number of the people who withdrew their support or sponsorship from the bill said that the protest had provoked them to actually read the bill themselves for the first time. Not shocked that&#39;s the case, mind you, it&#39;s grand tradition for Congress to be blind sided by what their laws actually do, just shocked that some of them actually admitted it this time.</p>
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:10:58 +0000Hevachcomment 276895 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: SOPA Protest Aftermathhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/19/sopa-protest-aftermath#comment-276892
<p>HLN was covering this a few times yesterday. They spent most of their coverage of it talking about what it is and what it does. Oh, and how some people might have a problem with it, but that&#39;s not important.</p>
<p>Oh, and one of the guys slipped up and called it the Stop Online PRIVACY Act.</p>
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:15:27 +0000MaskedPixelantecomment 276892 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: SOPA Protest Aftermathhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/19/sopa-protest-aftermath#comment-276889
<p>I saw a segment about the blackouts on ABC, but they spent most of their time on a demonstration by a 15 year old of how easy it is to find a pirated movie.&nbsp; Smooth, Disney.&nbsp; Real smooth.</p>
<p>It&#39;s like somebody pushing for a law that says they can shoot and kill anybody whose dog poops in their yard.&nbsp; When people point out that that is ludicrously overkill and horrifying and ineffective (dog with no owner?&nbsp; free to poop anywhere it pleases), the man just keeps repeating his mantra that the people against the idea are idiots who want their lawns to be full of poop.</p>
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:07:31 +0000MechaTama31comment 276889 at http://www.gamepolitics.com